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George Eliot - From the Activity category:
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Activity category:
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Adventure category:
Adventure is not outside man; it is within. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Aging category:
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Anticipation category:
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Belief category:
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Children category:
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Children category:
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Commitment category:
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Critics category:
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Desire category:
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Desire category:
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Desperation category:
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Desperation category:
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Destiny category:
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Determination category:
Decide what you think is right and stick to it. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Determination category:
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Discipline category:
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Education category:
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Ego category:
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Ego category:
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Excellence category:
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Experience category:
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Failure category:
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Failure category:
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Failure category:
There are many victories worse than a defeat. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Friendship category:
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Friendship category:
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Future category:
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Gender category:
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Gender category:
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Gender category:
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Gender category:
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Gender category:
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Generosity category:
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Genius category:
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Genius category:
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Greatness category:
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Growth category:
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Habit category:
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Happiness category:
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Humour category:
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Influence category:
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Intellect category:
His mind is furnished as hotels are, with everything for occasional and transient use. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Interpretation category:
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Jealousy category:
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Jealousy category:
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Jealousy category:
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Life category:
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Life category:
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Loneliness category:
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Love category:
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Love category:
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Meaning category:
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Motivation category:
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Nature category:
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Obsession category:
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Optimism category:
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Performance category:
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Perseverance category:
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Perspective category:
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Pets category:
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Possibilities category:
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Problems category:
Consequences are unpitying. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Production category:
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Profession category:
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Progress category:
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Quotations category:
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Religion category:
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands; / He could not make Antonio Stradivari's violins without Antonio. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Religion category:
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Responsibility category:
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Responsibility category:
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Rewards category:
The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Senses category:
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Silence category:
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Silence category:
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Talent category:
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent – like a carrier pigeon. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Timeliness category:
It is never too late to be what we might have been. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Truth category:
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Truth category:
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Understanding category:
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Vanity category:
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Vision category:
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Vision category:
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Windows category:
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Wisdom category:
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Words category:
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Words category:
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Writing category:
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. (George Eliot)
George Eliot - From the Writing category:
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. (George Eliot)
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